The first stage of cognitive development according to Piaget where the infant learn about their world through their senses and actions.
What is Sensorimotor
100
Smallest units of meaning
What is Morphemes
100
The coding of spatial locations relative to one's own body.
What is Egocentric representation
100
Type of intelligence that is hypothesized to influence our ability to think and learn on all intellectual tasks
What is General Intelligence
100
The tendency to perceive the world solely from one's own point of view
What is Egocentrism
200
The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they are out of view.
What is Object Permanence
200
Learning how to take turns during conversations with others is an example of ________ development.
What is Pragmatic
200
The most basic numerical understanding is _________, the realization that all sets of N objects have something in common
What is Numerical Equality
200
Howard Gardner's theory of intlligence
What is Theory of Multiple Intelligences
200
The sights, sounds, and other sensations that are just entering the cognitive system and are briefly held.
What is Sensory Memory
300
Stage of development where individuals can think logically. They classify objects and understand that events are often influenced by a multitude of factors, not just one.
What is Concrete Operational
300
Damage to _______ area results in language-productions impairment.
What is Broca's
300
By around 30 months, children engage in this type of play, a pretend play where they enact a mini drama (e.g., playing doctor)
What is Sociodramatic Play
300
The most commonly used intelligence test for kids age 6 and older.
What is Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV)
300
Distinctive mode of speech that adults adopt when talking to babies and very young children
What is Infant-Directed Talk
400
Focusing on a single salient feature of an object to the exclusion of other features.
What is Centration
400
Refers to understanding what others say.
What is language comprehension.
400
At 18 months, children engage in this type of play where they are able to attribute different thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of others. They start to play pretend games and use objects in place for other objects.
What is Pretend Play
400
The increase in average IQ score over the past several generations.
What is Flynn Effect
400
Memory that is limited in capacity and duration. Information from the environment and relevant knowledge are brought together attended to and actively processsed
What is working memory/short-term memory
500
Computer-based approach to thinking about development as a continuous process of change.
What is Information-Processing Theories
500
The characteristic rhythm, tempo, melody and intonational patterns with which language is spoken.
What is Prosody
500
Well-organized understanding of how the mind works and how it influences behavior.
What is Theory of Mind
500
Theory of Intelligence based on the view that intelligence is the ability to achieve success in life.
What is Sternberg's Theory of Successful Intelligence
500
Tendency to reach for objects where they have been found before, rather than where they were last hidden